Before we forget

[Porty]

O THE KIDS WHO SURVIVED the 40's, 50's, 60's and 70's.......

First, we survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank while
they carried us. They took aspirin, ate blue cheese dressing and didn't
get tested for diabetes.

Then after that trauma, our baby cribs were covered with bright colored
lead-based paints. We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, doors or
cabinets and when we rode our bikes, we had no helmets, not to mention,
the risks we took hitchhiking.

As children, we would ride in cars with no seat belts or air bags. Riding
in the back of a pick up on a warm day was always a special treat.

We drank water from the garden hose and NOT from a bottle. We shared one soft drink with four friends, from one bottle and NO ONE actually died
from this.

e ate cupcakes, bread and butter and drank soda pop with sugar in it, but
we weren't overweight because WE WERE ALWAYS OUTSIDE PLAYING! We would leave home in the morning and play all day, as long as we were back when the streetlights came on. No one was able to reach us all day. And we were okay.

We would spend hours building our go-carts out of scraps and then ride
down the hill, only to find out we forgot the brakes. After running into
the bushes a few times, we learned to solve the problem.

We did not have Playstations, Nintendo's, X-boxes, no video games at all,
no 99 channels on cable, no video tape movies, no surround sound, no l
phones, no personal computers, no internet or internet chat rooms...WE HAD FRIENDS and we went outside and found them!

We fell out of trees, got cut, broke bones and teeth and there were no
lawsuits from these accidents. We made up games with sticks and tennis
balls and ate worms and although we were told it would happen, we did not put out very many eyes, nor did the worms live in us forever.

We rode bikes or walked to a friend's house and knocked on the door or
rang the bell, or just walked in and talked to them!

This generation has produced some of the best risk-takers, problem solvers and inventors ever! The past 50 years have been an explosion of innovation and new ideas. We had freedom, failure, success and responsibility, and we learned HOW TO DEAL WITH IT ALL! And YOU are one of them! CONGRATULATIONS!

Please pass this on to others who have had the luck to grow up as kids,
before the lawyers and the government regulated our lives for our own
good. Kind of makes you want to run through the house with scissors,
doesn't it?

[Gemini]

Sure can relate to most of this Porty - ahh happy days

[Mimpty]

It's just got worse!
Did anyone else here this on the radio this morning? Apparently some teachers wanted to take their pupils out to play in the snow yesterday, but had ato complete a risk assessment form first and the pupils had to stand 65 feet apart before they could throw any snowballs.
Madness!

[foxy]

Happy days...I loved my carefree childhood. Wouldn't want to go back but so glad I experienced it...and now I'm such a well rounded individual

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